Stephen King Makes Potterism

Sat Jan 20 13:34:45 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 9853

Hi --

> Anake wrote: When Stephen King was hit by that car, he had a loooong time to read. In the back
> of the book has a list of books he read during his recovery and the first three Harry Potter books are
> listed. It's safe to assume that by now, he's read the fourth one.

Stephen King wrote the official New York Times book review of GoF.  It was a very favorable review, and
ironically (given the then-recent action by the NY Times to remove the HP books from the main bestseller
lists), King made a point of stressing at several points in that review that the books were by no means a
childrens' series.  :--)

I don't think it's available on-line any longer, but it was printed in the NY Times Book Review section
shortly after July 8th.

Penny